The Continued Relevance of Weber's Philosophy of Social Science
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5949599 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen Turner (0000-0002-7538-0533, University of South Florida, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 37-62 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Max Weber Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1470-8078 • E-ISSN: 2056-4074 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/max.2007.a808884 |
| OpenAlex | W4379622763 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 11 |
Only a few writers have attempted to construct a comprehensive philosophy of social science, and of these Weber is the most relevant to the present. The structure of his conception places him in a close relationship to Donald Davidson. The basic reasoning of Davidson on action explanation, anomalous monism, and the impossibility of a 'serious science' of psychology is paralleled in Weber. There are apparent differences with respect to their treatment of the status of the model of rational action and the problem of other cultures, as well as the problem of the objectivity of values, but on examination, these turn out to be modest but, nevertheless, interesting. Weber's use of the notion of ideal-types, though it is not paralleled directly in Davidson, allows him to make parallel conclusions about the relation of truth and interpretation: both make the problem of intelligibility rather than correspondence with some sort of external reality central, and each addresses, though in different ways, the dependence of considerations of intelligibility on normativity and the impossibility of a theory of meaning without idealization
Epistemology · Idealization · Impossibility · Philosophy of science · Rationality · Sociology · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Psychology · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
The methodology of the social sciences
Ancient history
Epistemological Problems of Economics
Problems in the Explanation of Action
On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme
Reconsidering Logical Positivism
Economy and Society
The construction of social reality
On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme
The Idea of a Social Science and Its Relation to Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |